The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.

lǘ mín 驴民

An insulting term reclaimed by netizens to deride authorities for holding the common people in low esteem. Very similar to “fart